Lawyers and Literature Spring || 2019 Tentative Schedule of Assignments Monday. January 7. 2019: First Class 1st Class Assignment: Getting Started 1st Class Assignment -- Pt2 Monday. January 14. 2019. Law School Stories J.S. Marcus, "Centaurs"; Lowell B. Komie, "The Interview" & "Ice Horse" Monday. January 21. 2019: Martin Luther King's Birthday. No Class. Reading that Will Get you Started in Preparing for the Course This week off will be an opportunity to follow-up on the background of the course. The best place to do that is in the Stories in the Education of Lawyers section of the course website. At this point, you might find most relevant: Ch1: Claiming Law School as a Place of Stories (reading this chapter as a prologue to the three chapters (that are, in essesse, a syllabus for the course) in which I try to tell you as much as I can about the course and how it "works": Chapter 5: Stories Take Center Stage Chapter 6: Stories Prod Us to See Our Education and Ourselves in a More Critical Light Chapter 7: Robert, and His Fellow Escape Artists Monday. January 28. 2019 Lowell Komie Stories "The Skipping Stones"; "The Cornucopia of Julia K."; "I Am Greenwald, My Father's Son"; "A Commuter's Notes" Monday. February 4. 2019 Another Installment of Lowell Komie Stories "The Balloon of William Fuerst"; "The Honorable Alicia Beauchamp"; "Ash" Monday. February 11. 2019 Threats: Real and Perceived Richard Ford, "Puppy,"; Madison Smartt Bell, "Witness," Maile Meloy, "Tome," Tobias Wolff, ""The Deposition" Monday. February 18. 2019 John William Corrington, "Every Act Whatever of Man" [online text] & "The Actes and Monuments" [online text] [Instructor's Note] Corrington Supplemental Reading: James R. Elkins, A Great Gift: Reading John William Corrington, 26 Legal Stud. F. 425 (2002) [online text of the essay] John William Corrington Bio Monday. February 25. 2019 "Equitable Awards," in Louis Auchincloss, Narcissa and Other Fables (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1983) "Weight," in Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips 163-178 (New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1990) "Let's Do," in Rebecca Meacham, Let's Do 63-86 (Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press, 2004) [reprinted, 36 Legal Stud. F. 1 (2013)] Instructor's Notes (Atwood & Ozick Stories) Monday. March 4. 2019 Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener" [Instructor's Notes] Monday, March 18. 2019 Tolstoy, "The Death of Ivan Ilych" [Instructor's Notes] Monday. March 25. 2019 Leslie Hall Pinder, On Double Tracks [Assignment Note] Monday, April 1. 2019 James Clarke, Oblique Verdicts (Exile Editions, 2017) Allen Mendenhall Interview [discussion of lawyers and poetry] [James Clarke: Instructor's Note] Monday, April 8. 2019 An informal session to talk about writing the course. See: Writing the Course: Instructor's Notes Monday. April 15. 2019 to be announced   Lawyers and Literature Home Page